M'town tax service moves to long-vacant storefront

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Feb 8, 2014 at 2:00 AM

Nathan Brown

MIDDLETOWN — A tax preparation, accounting and payroll service that used to be at 119 North St. just moved into the long-vacant space next door.Maritza Diaz used to run a tax service in that same space with Danely Express, a money order service. However, her son, Anthony Ordonez, said they recently bought an ATAX Accounting and Financial Services franchise, so they decided to move to 117 North St., which is in the same building but had been used for storage before. There hasn't been a business at 117 North since at least the late 1990s, said John Degnan, head of the downtown Business Improvement District.The ATAX franchise is headquartered in Yonkers, with more than a dozen locations in the New York City; a few others are scattered in the Northeast.